Encumbrance Quotes

7 quotes by 7 authors

• It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal… — Herbert Butterfield
• Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have now redefined the… — David F. Wells
• It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and… — Samuel Johnson
• In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an… — Wilfred Thesiger
• We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to our… — Benjamin Franklin
• In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage. — Thomas de Quincey
• Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that… — Alexandre Dumas

Who Wrote These Encumbrance Quotes

7 authors contributed a total of 7 Encumbrance Quotes as follows:

• 1 Encumbrance Quote by Herbert Butterfield
• 1 Encumbrance Quote by David F. Wells
• 1 Encumbrance Quote by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Encumbrance Quote by Wilfred Thesiger
• 1 Encumbrance Quote by Benjamin Franklin
• 1 Encumbrance Quote by Thomas de Quincey
• 1 Encumbrance Quote by Alexandre Dumas